Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices: A Global Comparative Approach by Anthon

Description: Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most This book presents a major collection of essays that expand our vision of the history of textual practices. It explores the multiple ways across time and cultures in which texts have been selected for entry into official canons and then verified, corrected, glossed, interpreted, illustrated, excerpted, performed, archived, and otherwise put to use. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. This volume shows how much is learned when historians of scholarship, like contemporary historians of science, focus on earlier scholars practices, and when Western scholarly traditions are treated as part of a much larger, cross-cultural inquiry. Author Biography Anthony Grafton teaches European history at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of classical scholarship, the history of science and the history of learning, from late antiquity to the twentieth century. Glenn W. Most is Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He has published numerous books and articles on classics; the history and methodology of classical studies; the classical tradition and comparative literature; modern philosophy and literature; literary theory; the history of science; and the history of art. Table of Contents How to do things with texts: an introduction Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most; 1. Reliable books: Islamic law, canonization, and manuscripts in the Ottoman Empire (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) Guy Burak; 2. Obscurity Ineke Sluiter; 3. Allegoresis and etymology Glenn W. Most; 4. Classifying the Rigveda on the basis of ritual usage: the deity-of-the-formula system Paolo Visigalli; 5. Marydm Ullanghya: The boundaries of interpretation in early modern India Christopher Minkowski; 6. Making sense of Suetonius in the twelfth century Robert A. Kaster; 7. From Philology to Philosophy: Zhu Xi as a reader-annotator Lianbin Dai; 8. Gods on clay: ancient Near Eastern scholarly practices and the history of religions Aaron Tugendhaft; 9. An unknown medieval Coptic Hebraism? On a momentous junction of Jewish and Coptic biblical studies Ronny Vollandt; 10. Picturing as practice: placing a square above a square in the central Middle Ages Megan McNamee; 11. Inimitable sources: canonical texts and rhetorical theory in the Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions Filippomaria Pontani; 12. Excerpts versus fragments: deconstructions and reconstitutions of the Excerpta Constantiniana András Németh; 13. Johann Buxtorf makes a notebook Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg; 14. World bibliographies: libraries and the reorganization of knowledge in late Renaissance Europe Paola Molino. Review … this transcultural investigation is the fruit of comparative and collaborative scholarship at its best. It is, to use the editors coinage, a symphilological achievement that will leave its readers with a habit of stopping to think about the particularity of scholarly practices and its implications for the history of ideas. All the contributions are lucidly written with a cross-disciplinary audience in mind and beautifully documented with images, tables, and transcriptions of the evidence discussed … the choice to let the individual contributions speak for themselves, along with the work of comparison and juxtaposition germane to the textual practice of the essay collection, seems a forceful methodological statement for a project that places the case study at the heart of its epistemic undertaking. Tania Demetriuo, Isis Review Promotional A comparative intercultural study of the techniques applied by scholars throughout the world to deal with problematic texts and artifacts. Review Quote ... this transcultural investigation is the fruit of comparative and collaborative scholarship at its best. It is, to use the editors coinage, a symphilological achievement that will leave its readers with a habit of stopping to think about the particularity of scholarly practices and its implications for the history of ideas. All the contributions are lucidly written with a cross-disciplinary audience in mind and beautifully documented with images, tables, and transcriptions of the evidence discussed ... the choice to let the individual contributions speak for themselves, along with the work of comparison and juxtaposition germane to the textual practice of the essay collection, seems a forceful methodological statement for a project that places the case study at the heart of its epistemic undertaking. Tania Demetriuo, Isis Review Promotional "Headline" A comparative intercultural study of the techniques applied by scholars throughout the world to deal with problematic texts and artifacts. Description for Bookstore This book presents a major collection of essays that expand our vision of the history of textual practices. It explores the multiple ways across time and cultures in which texts have been selected for entry into official canons and then verified, corrected, glossed, interpreted, illustrated, excerpted, performed, archived, and otherwise put to use. Description for Library This book presents a major collection of essays that expand our vision of the history of textual practices. It explores the multiple ways across time and cultures in which texts have been selected for entry into official canons and then verified, corrected, glossed, interpreted, illustrated, excerpted, performed, archived, and otherwise put to use. Details ISBN1107105986 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2016 ISBN-10 1107105986 ISBN-13 9781107105980 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle A Global Comparative Approach Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Glenn W. Most DEWEY 001.209 Author Glenn W. Most Media Book Short Title CANONICAL TEXTS & SCHOLARLY PR Language English Pages 398 Publication Date 2016-09-07 Affiliation Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa UK Release Date 2016-09-07 AU Release Date 2016-09-07 NZ Release Date 2016-09-07 Illustrations 27 Halftones, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white Alternative 9781107513860 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:100488920;

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